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Discovering that Madonna had posed nude early in her career is a bit like learning that the blond pop siren streaks her hair. Not exactly shattering news. Even so, there was the Material Girl without a stitch of material last week in not one but two flesh magazines, Playboy and Penthouse. The pictures are unremarkable art school stuff, black-and-white studies of Madonna reclining on couches and sitting on windowsills. The real pleasure came from watching Playboy and Penthouse trade taunts in an old-fashioned newsstand...
...Sing the word ‘toad,’ beginning on a low pitch (for your range) and instantly sliding up in pitch in glissando (like a siren...
...alarm continues to shriek uselessly long after the physical danger has passed. Somewhere along the line--maybe near the initial injury, maybe in the spinal cord or brain--the alarm system has broken down. What researchers have only recently come to understand is that prolonged exposure to this screaming siren actually does its own damage. "Pain causes a fundamental rewiring of the nervous system," says Dr. Sean Mackey, director of research at Stanford University's Pain Management Center. "Each time we feel pain, there are changes that occur that tend to amplify our experience of pain." That...
Psychologists often play a critical role in persuading pain-hobbled patients to get moving again despite the blaring siren that tells them to keep still. "By educating them, by saying 'You've healed as much as you're going to heal,'" says Symreng, "we can deal with the No. 1 issue from a psychological perspective: the fear of reinjuring something." Getting the patient to move--or, better yet, exercise--not only restores function and raises spirits, it also prevents the cascade of health problems that stem from paralyzing pain. "If you're lying in bed all day," explains UCSF...
...DIED. PARVEEN BABI, 49, Bollywood siren touted in a TIME cover story as the face of the modern Indian woman in 1977, of unspecified natural causes; in Bombay. After debuting in 1973's Charitrna while still a college student, Babi quickly became a favorite of Indian audiences dazzled by her striking beauty. She appeared in more than 50 movies, pushing the boundaries of conservative Hindi films by wearing bikinis and smoking and drinking on screen. Reportedly suffering from schizophrenia, Babi spent several years abroad, returning to India in 2002. She spent much of her later years in seclusion...